diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f4cc26dd65..272ffdb56c 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             python -m pip install --upgrade pip
             pip install -r requirements.txt
+            pip install ~/project/tools/schemacode/
       - run:
           name: generate docs
           command: mkdocs build --clean --strict --verbose
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 2bd791b40d..d2563f43d1 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 *.png -text
 *.jpg -text
 *.webm -text
+tools/schemacode/schemacode/_version.py export-subst
diff --git a/.github/workflows/schemacode_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/schemacode_ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51f0334e5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/schemacode_ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+name: "schemacode_ci"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "master"
+    paths:
+      - "tools/schemacode/**"
+      - "src/schema/**"
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - "*"
+    paths:
+      - "tools/schemacode/**"
+      - "src/schema/**"
+
+jobs:
+  check_skip:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      skip: ${{ steps.result_step.outputs.ci-skip }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - id: result_step
+        uses: mstachniuk/ci-skip@master
+        with:
+          commit-filter: "[skip ci];[ci skip];[skip github]"
+          commit-filter-separator: ";"
+
+  run_tests:
+    needs: check_skip
+    if: ${{ needs.check_skip.outputs.skip == 'false' }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+        fail-fast: false
+        matrix:
+            os: ["ubuntu-latest"]
+            python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+    name: ${{ matrix.os }} with Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: "Set up Python"
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+            python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: "Display Python version"
+        shell: bash {0}
+        run: python -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"
+
+      - name: "Install the schemacode package"
+        shell: bash {0}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --progress-bar off --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+          python -m pip install -e ./tools/schemacode[tests]
+
+      - name: "Run tests"
+        shell: bash {0}
+        run: |
+          python -m pytest --pyargs schemacode --cov=schemacode ./tools/schemacode/
+
+      - name: "Upload coverage to CodeCov"
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+        if: success()
+
+  flake8-lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Lint schemacode
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out source repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Python environment
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.7"
+
+      - name: "Install the schemacode package"
+        shell: bash {0}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --progress-bar off --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+          python -m pip install -e ./tools/schemacode[tests]
+
+      - name: "Run flake8"
+        working-directory: ./tools/schemacode/
+        shell: bash {0}
+        run: |
+          flake8 .
diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
index 5dbad3bf60..24cc697363 100644
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -18,3 +18,7 @@
 /src/05-derivatives/05-functional-derivatives.md @effigies
 /src/05-derivatives/06-diffusion-derivatives.md @francopestilli @oesteban @Lestropie
 /src/99-appendices/06-meg-file-formats.md @monkeyman192
+
+# The schema
+/src/schema/ @tsalo
+/tools/schemacode/ @tsalo
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 806c28a3c1..edc1538e9f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,4 @@ pymdown-extensions>=7.0.0
 mkdocs-branchcustomization-plugin~=0.1.3
 mkdocs-macros-plugin
 numpy
-pandas
-PYYaml
-tabulate
+tools/schemacode/
diff --git a/tools/mkdocs_macros_bids/macros.py b/tools/mkdocs_macros_bids/macros.py
index 0531203e24..6f4363fbff 100644
--- a/tools/mkdocs_macros_bids/macros.py
+++ b/tools/mkdocs_macros_bids/macros.py
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
+from schemacode import render, schema, utils
+
 code_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
 sys.path.append(code_path)
 
 from examplecode import example
-from schemacode import schema, utils
 
 
 def make_filename_template(**kwargs):
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ def make_filename_template(**kwargs):
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    codeblock = schema.make_filename_template(schema_obj, **kwargs)
+    codeblock = render.make_filename_template(schema_obj, **kwargs)
     return codeblock
 
 
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ def make_entity_table(**kwargs):
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    table = schema.make_entity_table(schema_obj, **kwargs)
+    table = render.make_entity_table(schema_obj, **kwargs)
     return table
 
 
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ def make_entity_definitions():
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    text = schema.make_entity_definitions(schema_obj)
+    text = render.make_entity_definitions(schema_obj)
     return text
 
 
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ def make_glossary():
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    text = schema.make_glossary(schema_obj)
+    text = render.make_glossary(schema_obj)
     return text
 
 
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ def make_suffix_table(suffixes):
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    table = schema.make_suffix_table(schema_obj, suffixes)
+    table = render.make_suffix_table(schema_obj, suffixes)
     return table
 
 
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ def make_metadata_table(field_info):
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    table = schema.make_metadata_table(schema_obj, field_info)
+    table = render.make_metadata_table(schema_obj, field_info)
     return table
 
 
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ def make_columns_table(column_info):
     """
     schemapath = utils.get_schema_path()
     schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schemapath)
-    table = schema.make_columns_table(schema_obj, column_info)
+    table = render.make_columns_table(schema_obj, column_info)
     return table
 
 
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/MANIFEST.in b/tools/schemacode/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c67a6ea54b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include versioneer.py
+include schemacode/_version.py
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/README.md b/tools/schemacode/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad8cccb51d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# schemacode
+
+A Python library for working with the BIDS schema.
+
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/bids-standard/bids-specification/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/bids-standard/bids-specification)
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/__init__.py b/tools/schemacode/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f492a4087..0000000000
--- a/tools/schemacode/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-"""A Python package for working with the BIDS schema."""
-from . import schema, utils
-
-__all__ = [
-    "schema",
-    "utils",
-]
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/pyproject.toml b/tools/schemacode/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2568b7167e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
+
+[tool.black]
+line-length = 99
+target-version = ['py37']
+include = '\.pyi?$'
+exclude = '''
+(
+  /(
+      \.eggs         # exclude a few common directories in the
+    | \.git          # root of the project
+    | \.github
+    | \.hg
+    | \.pytest_cache
+    | _build
+    | build
+    | dist
+  )/
+  | versioneer.py
+  | schemacode/_version.py
+)
+'''
+
+[tool.isort]
+profile = "black"
+multi_line_output = 3
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/__init__.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a00379421a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+"""A Python package for working with the BIDS schema."""
+from . import render, schema, utils
+
+__all__ = [
+    "render",
+    "schema",
+    "utils",
+]
+
+from . import _version
+
+__version__ = _version.get_versions()["version"]
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/_version.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..773b0f3174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,674 @@
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (built by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.21 (https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer)
+
+"""Git implementation of _version.py."""
+
+import errno
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from typing import Callable, Dict
+
+
+def get_keywords():
+    """Get the keywords needed to look up the version information."""
+    # these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive.
+    # setup.py/versioneer.py will grep for the variable names, so they must
+    # each be defined on a line of their own. _version.py will just call
+    # get_keywords().
+    git_refnames = "$Format:%d$"
+    git_full = "$Format:%H$"
+    git_date = "$Format:%ci$"
+    keywords = {"refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full, "date": git_date}
+    return keywords
+
+
+class VersioneerConfig:
+    """Container for Versioneer configuration parameters."""
+
+
+def get_config():
+    """Create, populate and return the VersioneerConfig() object."""
+    # these strings are filled in when 'setup.py versioneer' creates
+    # _version.py
+    cfg = VersioneerConfig()
+    cfg.VCS = "git"
+    cfg.style = "pep440"
+    cfg.tag_prefix = "v"
+    cfg.parentdir_prefix = ""
+    cfg.versionfile_source = "schemacode/_version.py"
+    cfg.verbose = False
+    return cfg
+
+
+class NotThisMethod(Exception):
+    """Exception raised if a method is not valid for the current scenario."""
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY: Dict[str, str] = {}
+HANDLERS: Dict[str, Dict[str, Callable]] = {}
+
+
+def register_vcs_handler(vcs, method):  # decorator
+    """Create decorator to mark a method as the handler of a VCS."""
+
+    def decorate(f):
+        """Store f in HANDLERS[vcs][method]."""
+        if vcs not in HANDLERS:
+            HANDLERS[vcs] = {}
+        HANDLERS[vcs][method] = f
+        return f
+
+    return decorate
+
+
+def run_command(commands, args, cwd=None, verbose=False, hide_stderr=False, env=None):
+    """Call the given command(s)."""
+    assert isinstance(commands, list)
+    process = None
+    for command in commands:
+        try:
+            dispcmd = str([command] + args)
+            # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+            process = subprocess.Popen(
+                [command] + args,
+                cwd=cwd,
+                env=env,
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                stderr=(subprocess.PIPE if hide_stderr else None),
+            )
+            break
+        except OSError:
+            e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+            if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("unable to run %s" % dispcmd)
+                print(e)
+            return None, None
+    else:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to find command, tried %s" % (commands,))
+        return None, None
+    stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip().decode()
+    if process.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % dispcmd)
+            print("stdout was %s" % stdout)
+        return None, process.returncode
+    return stdout, process.returncode
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose):
+    """Try to determine the version from the parent directory name.
+
+    Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes both
+    the project name and a version string. We will also support searching up
+    two directory levels for an appropriately named parent directory
+    """
+    rootdirs = []
+
+    for _ in range(3):
+        dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+        if dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+            return {
+                "version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix) :],
+                "full-revisionid": None,
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": None,
+            }
+        rootdirs.append(root)
+        root = os.path.dirname(root)  # up a level
+
+    if verbose:
+        print(
+            "Tried directories %s but none started with prefix %s"
+            % (str(rootdirs), parentdir_prefix)
+        )
+    raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "get_keywords")
+def git_get_keywords(versionfile_abs):
+    """Extract version information from the given file."""
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # keywords. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import _version.py,
+    # so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not used from
+    # _version.py.
+    keywords = {}
+    try:
+        with open(versionfile_abs, "r") as fobj:
+            for line in fobj:
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["full"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_date ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["date"] = mo.group(1)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    return keywords
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "keywords")
+def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
+    """Get version information from git keywords."""
+    if "refnames" not in keywords:
+        raise NotThisMethod("Short version file found")
+    date = keywords.get("date")
+    if date is not None:
+        # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+        # information.
+        date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+
+        # git-2.2.0 added "%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
+        # datestamp. However we prefer "%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
+        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
+        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
+        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
+        # older one.
+        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
+        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
+    refs = {r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")}
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = {r[len(TAG) :] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)}
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = {r for r in refs if re.search(r"\d", r)}
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs - tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix) :]
+            # Filter out refs that exactly match prefix or that don't start
+            # with a number once the prefix is stripped (mostly a concern
+            # when prefix is '')
+            if not re.match(r"\d", r):
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return {
+                "version": r,
+                "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": date,
+            }
+    # no suitable tags, so version is "0+unknown", but full hex is still there
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using unknown + full revision id")
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+        "dirty": False,
+        "error": "no suitable tags",
+        "date": None,
+    }
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "pieces_from_vcs")
+def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, runner=run_command):
+    """Get version from 'git describe' in the root of the source tree.
+
+    This only gets called if the git-archive 'subst' keywords were *not*
+    expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
+    version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+    """
+    GITS = ["git"]
+    TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = "*"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]
+        TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = r"\*"
+
+    _, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root, hide_stderr=True)
+    if rc != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")
+
+    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
+    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
+    describe_out, rc = runner(
+        GITS,
+        [
+            "describe",
+            "--tags",
+            "--dirty",
+            "--always",
+            "--long",
+            "--match",
+            "%s%s" % (tag_prefix, TAG_PREFIX_REGEX),
+        ],
+        cwd=root,
+    )
+    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
+    if describe_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
+    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
+    full_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if full_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
+    full_out = full_out.strip()
+
+    pieces = {}
+    pieces["long"] = full_out
+    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
+    pieces["error"] = None
+
+    branch_name, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    # --abbrev-ref was added in git-1.6.3
+    if rc != 0 or branch_name is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --abbrev-ref' returned error")
+    branch_name = branch_name.strip()
+
+    if branch_name == "HEAD":
+        # If we aren't exactly on a branch, pick a branch which represents
+        # the current commit. If all else fails, we are on a branchless
+        # commit.
+        branches, rc = runner(GITS, ["branch", "--contains"], cwd=root)
+        # --contains was added in git-1.5.4
+        if rc != 0 or branches is None:
+            raise NotThisMethod("'git branch --contains' returned error")
+        branches = branches.split("\n")
+
+        # Remove the first line if we're running detached
+        if "(" in branches[0]:
+            branches.pop(0)
+
+        # Strip off the leading "* " from the list of branches.
+        branches = [branch[2:] for branch in branches]
+        if "master" in branches:
+            branch_name = "master"
+        elif not branches:
+            branch_name = None
+        else:
+            # Pick the first branch that is returned. Good or bad.
+            branch_name = branches[0]
+
+    pieces["branch"] = branch_name
+
+    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
+    # TAG might have hyphens.
+    git_describe = describe_out
+
+    # look for -dirty suffix
+    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
+    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
+    if dirty:
+        git_describe = git_describe[: git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]
+
+    # now we have TAG-NUM-gHEX or HEX
+
+    if "-" in git_describe:
+        # TAG-NUM-gHEX
+        mo = re.search(r"^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$", git_describe)
+        if not mo:
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            pieces["error"] = "unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'" % describe_out
+            return pieces
+
+        # tag
+        full_tag = mo.group(1)
+        if not full_tag.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            if verbose:
+                fmt = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'"
+                print(fmt % (full_tag, tag_prefix))
+            pieces["error"] = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (full_tag, tag_prefix)
+            return pieces
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = full_tag[len(tag_prefix) :]
+
+        # distance: number of commits since tag
+        pieces["distance"] = int(mo.group(2))
+
+        # commit: short hex revision ID
+        pieces["short"] = mo.group(3)
+
+    else:
+        # HEX: no tags
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = None
+        count_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-list", "HEAD", "--count"], cwd=root)
+        pieces["distance"] = int(count_out)  # total number of commits
+
+    # commit date: see ISO-8601 comment in git_versions_from_keywords()
+    date = runner(GITS, ["show", "-s", "--format=%ci", "HEAD"], cwd=root)[0].strip()
+    # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+    # information.
+    date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+    pieces["date"] = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+
+    return pieces
+
+
+def plus_or_dot(pieces):
+    """Return a + if we don't already have one, else return a ."""
+    if "+" in pieces.get("closest-tag", ""):
+        return "."
+    return "+"
+
+
+def render_pep440(pieces):
+    """Build up version string, with post-release "local version identifier".
+
+    Our goal: TAG[+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] . Note that if you
+    get a tagged build and then dirty it, you'll get TAG+0.gHEX.dirty
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. git_describe was just HEX. 0+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[[.dev0]+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a feature branch will appear "older" than the master branch).
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0[.dev0]+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0"
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def pep440_split_post(ver):
+    """Split pep440 version string at the post-release segment.
+
+    Returns the release segments before the post-release and the
+    post-release version number (or -1 if no post-release segment is present).
+    """
+    vc = str.split(ver, ".post")
+    return vc[0], int(vc[1] or 0) if len(vc) == 2 else None
+
+
+def render_pep440_pre(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postN.devDISTANCE] -- No -dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.post0.devDISTANCE
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            # update the post release segment
+            tag_version, post_version = pep440_split_post(pieces["closest-tag"])
+            rendered = tag_version
+            if post_version is not None:
+                rendered += ".post%d.dev%d" % (post_version + 1, pieces["distance"])
+            else:
+                rendered += ".post0.dev%d" % (pieces["distance"])
+        else:
+            # no commits, use the tag as the version
+            rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post0.dev%d" % pieces["distance"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a dirty tree will appear "older" than the corresponding clean one),
+    but you shouldn't be releasing software with -dirty anyways.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_old(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe(pieces):
+    """TAG[-DISTANCE-gHEX][-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always'.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe_long(pieces):
+    """TAG-DISTANCE-gHEX[-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always -long'.
+    The distance/hash is unconditional.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render(pieces, style):
+    """Render the given version pieces into the requested style."""
+    if pieces["error"]:
+        return {
+            "version": "unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": pieces.get("long"),
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": pieces["error"],
+            "date": None,
+        }
+
+    if not style or style == "default":
+        style = "pep440"  # the default
+
+    if style == "pep440":
+        rendered = render_pep440(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-pre":
+        rendered = render_pep440_pre(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-old":
+        rendered = render_pep440_old(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe":
+        rendered = render_git_describe(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe-long":
+        rendered = render_git_describe_long(pieces)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("unknown style '%s'" % style)
+
+    return {
+        "version": rendered,
+        "full-revisionid": pieces["long"],
+        "dirty": pieces["dirty"],
+        "error": None,
+        "date": pieces.get("date"),
+    }
+
+
+def get_versions():
+    """Get version information or return default if unable to do so."""
+    # I am in _version.py, which lives at ROOT/VERSIONFILE_SOURCE. If we have
+    # __file__, we can work backwards from there to the root. Some
+    # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__, in which
+    # case we can only use expanded keywords.
+
+    cfg = get_config()
+    verbose = cfg.verbose
+
+    try:
+        return git_versions_from_keywords(get_keywords(), cfg.tag_prefix, verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        root = os.path.realpath(__file__)
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert
+        # this to find the root from __file__.
+        for _ in cfg.versionfile_source.split("/"):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    except NameError:
+        return {
+            "version": "0+unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": None,
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": "unable to find root of source tree",
+            "date": None,
+        }
+
+    try:
+        pieces = git_pieces_from_vcs(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
+        return render(pieces, cfg.style)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
+            return versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": None,
+        "dirty": None,
+        "error": "unable to compute version",
+        "date": None,
+    }
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/data/schema b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/data/schema
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..a06955547a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/data/schema
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../src/schema
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schema.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/render.py
similarity index 78%
rename from tools/schemacode/schema.py
rename to tools/schemacode/schemacode/render.py
index 77529e45d5..db802d8db9 100644
--- a/tools/schemacode/schema.py
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/render.py
@@ -1,176 +1,21 @@
-"""Schema loading- and processing-related functions.
-"""
+"""Functions for rendering portions of the schema as text."""
 import logging
 import os
-import os.path as op
-from copy import deepcopy
-from glob import glob
-from pathlib import Path
 
 import pandas as pd
-import yaml
 from tabulate import tabulate
 
 from . import utils
-
-# import utils
-
+from .schema import filter_schema
 
 lgr = utils.get_logger()
 # Basic settings for output, for now just basic
-utils.set_logger_level(
-    lgr, os.environ.get("BIDS_SCHEMA_LOG_LEVEL", logging.INFO)
-)
+utils.set_logger_level(lgr, os.environ.get("BIDS_SCHEMA_LOG_LEVEL", logging.INFO))
 logging.basicConfig(format="%(asctime)-15s [%(levelname)8s] %(message)s")
 
-BIDS_SCHEMA = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "src" / "schema"
-
-
-def _get_entry_name(path):
-    if path.suffix == ".yaml":
-        return path.name[:-5]  # no .yaml
-    else:
-        return path.name
-
-
-def dereference_yaml(schema, struct):
-    """Recursively search a dictionary-like object for $ref keys.
-
-    Each $ref key is replaced with the contents of the referenced field in the overall
-    dictionary-like object.
-    """
-    if isinstance(struct, dict):
-        if "$ref" in struct:
-            ref_field = struct["$ref"]
-            template = schema[ref_field]
-            struct.pop("$ref")
-            # Result is template object with local overrides
-            struct = {**template, **struct}
-
-        struct = {key: dereference_yaml(schema, val) for key, val in struct.items()}
-
-    elif isinstance(struct, list):
-        struct = [dereference_yaml(schema, item) for item in struct]
-
-    return struct
-
-
-def load_schema(schema_path):
-    """Load the schema into a dictionary.
-
-    This function allows the schema, like BIDS itself, to be specified in
-    a hierarchy of directories and files.
-    File names (minus extensions) and directory names become keys
-    in the associative array (dict) of entries composed from content
-    of files and entire directories.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    schema_path : str
-        Folder containing yaml files or yaml file.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    dict
-        Schema in dictionary form.
-    """
-    schema_path = Path(schema_path)
-    objects_dir = schema_path / "objects/"
-    rules_dir = schema_path / "rules/"
-
-    schema = {}
-    schema["objects"] = {}
-    schema["rules"] = {}
-
-    # Load object definitions. All are present in single files.
-    object_group_files = sorted(glob(str(objects_dir / "*.yaml")))
-    for object_group_file in object_group_files:
-        group_name = op.splitext(op.basename(object_group_file))[0]
-        with open(object_group_file, "r") as fo:
-            dict_ = yaml.load(fo, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)
-            dict_ = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
-            schema["objects"][group_name] = dict_
-
-    # Grab single-file rule groups
-    rule_group_files = sorted(glob(str(rules_dir / "*.yaml")))
-    rule_group_folders = sorted(glob(str(rules_dir / "*")))
-    rule_group_folders = [f for f in rule_group_folders if op.isdir(f)]
-    for rule_group_file in rule_group_files:
-        group_name = op.splitext(op.basename(rule_group_file))[0]
-        with open(rule_group_file, "r") as fo:
-            dict_ = yaml.load(fo, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)
-            dict_ = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
-            schema["rules"][group_name] = dict_
-
-    # Load folders of rule subgroups.
-    for rule_group_folder in rule_group_folders:
-        group_name = op.basename(rule_group_folder)
-        rule_subgroup_files = sorted(glob(op.join(rule_group_folder, "*.yaml")))
-        schema["rules"][group_name] = {}
-        for rule_subgroup_file in rule_subgroup_files:
-            subgroup_name = op.splitext(op.basename(rule_subgroup_file))[0]
-            with open(rule_subgroup_file, "r") as fo:
-                dict_ = yaml.load(fo, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)
-                dict_ = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
-                schema["rules"][group_name][subgroup_name] = dict_
-
-    return schema
-
-
-def filter_schema(schema, **kwargs):
-    """Filter the schema based on a set of keyword arguments.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    schema : dict
-        The schema object, which is a dictionary with nested dictionaries and
-        lists stored within it.
-    kwargs : dict
-        Keyword arguments used to filter the schema.
-        Example kwargs that may be used include: "suffixes", "datatypes",
-        "extensions".
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    new_schema : dict
-        The filtered version of the schema.
-
-    Notes
-    -----
-    This function calls itself recursively, in order to apply filters at
-    arbitrary depth.
-
-    Warning
-    -------
-    This function employs a *very* simple filter. It is very limited.
-    """
-    new_schema = deepcopy(schema)
-    if isinstance(new_schema, dict):
-        # Reduce values in dict to only requested
-        for k, v in kwargs.items():
-            if k in new_schema.keys():
-                filtered_item = deepcopy(new_schema[k])
-                if isinstance(filtered_item, dict):
-                    filtered_item = {
-                        k1: v1 for k1, v1 in filtered_item.items() if k1 in v
-                    }
-                else:
-                    filtered_item = [i for i in filtered_item if i in v]
-                new_schema[k] = filtered_item
-
-            for k2, v2 in new_schema.items():
-                new_schema[k2] = filter_schema(new_schema[k2], **kwargs)
-
-    elif isinstance(new_schema, list):
-        for i, item in enumerate(new_schema):
-            if isinstance(item, dict):
-                new_schema[i] = filter_schema(item, **kwargs)
-    return new_schema
-
 
 def make_entity_definitions(schema):
-    """Generate definitions and other relevant information for entities in the
-    specification.
+    """Generate definitions and other relevant information for entities in the specification.
 
     Each entity gets its own heading.
 
@@ -305,8 +150,7 @@ def _add_entity(filename_template, entity_pattern, requirement_level):
 
 
 def make_filename_template(schema, **kwargs):
-    """Create codeblocks containing example filename patterns for a given
-    datatype.
+    """Create codeblocks containing example filename patterns for a given datatype.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
@@ -381,16 +225,12 @@ def make_filename_template(schema, **kwargs):
                 string += suffix
                 strings = [string]
             else:
-                strings = [
-                    string + "_" + suffix for suffix in group["suffixes"]
-                ]
+                strings = [string + "_" + suffix for suffix in group["suffixes"]]
 
             # Add extensions
             full_strings = []
             extensions = group["extensions"]
-            extensions = [
-                ext if ext != "*" else ".<extension>" for ext in extensions
-            ]
+            extensions = [ext if ext != "*" else ".<extension>" for ext in extensions]
             extensions = utils.combine_extensions(extensions)
             if len(extensions) > 5:
                 # Combine exts when there are many, but keep JSON separate
@@ -539,7 +379,7 @@ def make_entity_table(schema, tablefmt="github", **kwargs):
     def _remove_numeric_suffixes(string):
         import re
 
-        suffix_str = re.findall("\((.+)\)", string)
+        suffix_str = re.findall(r"\((.+)\)", string)
         # The "Format" row should be skipped
         if not suffix_str:
             return string
@@ -580,11 +420,7 @@ def make_suffix_table(schema, suffixes, tablefmt="github"):
     suffixes_found = [f for f in suffixes if f in suffix_schema.keys()]
     suffixes_not_found = [f for f in suffixes if f not in suffix_schema.keys()]
     if suffixes_not_found:
-        raise Exception(
-            "Warning: Missing suffixes: {}".format(
-                ", ".join(suffixes_not_found)
-            )
-        )
+        raise Exception("Warning: Missing suffixes: {}".format(", ".join(suffixes_not_found)))
 
     df = pd.DataFrame(
         index=suffixes_found,
@@ -667,9 +503,7 @@ def make_metadata_table(schema, field_info, tablefmt="github"):
 
         type_string = utils.resolve_metadata_type(metadata_schema[field])
 
-        description = (
-            metadata_schema[field]["description"] + " " + description_addendum
-        )
+        description = metadata_schema[field]["description"] + " " + description_addendum
         # A backslash before a newline means continue a string
         description = description.replace("\\\n", "")
         # Two newlines should be respected
@@ -738,9 +572,7 @@ def make_columns_table(schema, column_info, tablefmt="github"):
 
         type_string = utils.resolve_metadata_type(column_schema[field])
 
-        description = (
-            column_schema[field]["description"] + " " + description_addendum
-        )
+        description = column_schema[field]["description"] + " " + description_addendum
         # A backslash before a newline means continue a string
         description = description.replace("\\\n", "")
         # Two newlines should be respected
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/schema.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/schema.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9203eaa921
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/schema.py
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+"""Schema loading- and processing-related functions."""
+import logging
+import os
+from copy import deepcopy
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import yaml
+
+from . import utils
+
+lgr = utils.get_logger()
+# Basic settings for output, for now just basic
+utils.set_logger_level(lgr, os.environ.get("BIDS_SCHEMA_LOG_LEVEL", logging.INFO))
+logging.basicConfig(format="%(asctime)-15s [%(levelname)8s] %(message)s")
+
+
+def _get_entry_name(path):
+    if path.suffix == ".yaml":
+        return path.name[:-5]  # no .yaml
+    else:
+        return path.name
+
+
+def dereference_yaml(schema, struct):
+    """Recursively search a dictionary-like object for $ref keys.
+
+    Each $ref key is replaced with the contents of the referenced field in the overall
+    dictionary-like object.
+    """
+    if isinstance(struct, dict):
+        if "$ref" in struct:
+            ref_field = struct["$ref"]
+            template = schema[ref_field]
+            struct.pop("$ref")
+            # Result is template object with local overrides
+            struct = {**template, **struct}
+
+        struct = {key: dereference_yaml(schema, val) for key, val in struct.items()}
+
+    elif isinstance(struct, list):
+        struct = [dereference_yaml(schema, item) for item in struct]
+
+    return struct
+
+
+def load_schema(schema_path):
+    """Load the schema into a dictionary.
+
+    This function allows the schema, like BIDS itself, to be specified in
+    a hierarchy of directories and files.
+    File names (minus extensions) and directory names become keys
+    in the associative array (dict) of entries composed from content
+    of files and entire directories.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    schema_path : str
+        Folder containing yaml files or yaml file.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    dict
+        Schema in dictionary form.
+    """
+    schema_path = Path(schema_path)
+    objects_dir = schema_path / "objects/"
+    rules_dir = schema_path / "rules/"
+
+    if not objects_dir.is_dir() or not rules_dir.is_dir():
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Schema path or paths do not exist:\n\t{str(objects_dir)}\n\t{str(rules_dir)}"
+        )
+
+    schema = {}
+    schema["objects"] = {}
+    schema["rules"] = {}
+
+    # Load object definitions. All are present in single files.
+    for object_group_file in sorted(objects_dir.glob("*.yaml")):
+        lgr.debug(f"Loading {object_group_file.stem} objects.")
+        dict_ = yaml.safe_load(object_group_file.read_text())
+        schema["objects"][object_group_file.stem] = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
+
+    # Grab single-file rule groups
+    for rule_group_file in sorted(rules_dir.glob("*.yaml")):
+        lgr.debug(f"Loading {rule_group_file.stem} rules.")
+        dict_ = yaml.safe_load(rule_group_file.read_text())
+        schema["rules"][rule_group_file.stem] = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
+
+    # Load folders of rule subgroups.
+    for rule_group_file in sorted(rules_dir.glob("*/*.yaml")):
+        rule = schema["rules"].setdefault(rule_group_file.parent.name, {})
+        lgr.debug(f"Loading {rule_group_file.stem} rules.")
+        dict_ = yaml.safe_load(rule_group_file.read_text())
+        rule[rule_group_file.stem] = dereference_yaml(dict_, dict_)
+
+    return schema
+
+
+def filter_schema(schema, **kwargs):
+    """Filter the schema based on a set of keyword arguments.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    schema : dict
+        The schema object, which is a dictionary with nested dictionaries and
+        lists stored within it.
+    kwargs : dict
+        Keyword arguments used to filter the schema.
+        Example kwargs that may be used include: "suffixes", "datatypes",
+        "extensions".
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    new_schema : dict
+        The filtered version of the schema.
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    This function calls itself recursively, in order to apply filters at
+    arbitrary depth.
+
+    Warning
+    -------
+    This function employs a *very* simple filter. It is very limited.
+    """
+    new_schema = deepcopy(schema)
+    if isinstance(new_schema, dict):
+        # Reduce values in dict to only requested
+        for k, v in kwargs.items():
+            if k in new_schema.keys():
+                filtered_item = deepcopy(new_schema[k])
+                if isinstance(filtered_item, dict):
+                    filtered_item = {k1: v1 for k1, v1 in filtered_item.items() if k1 in v}
+                else:
+                    filtered_item = [i for i in filtered_item if i in v]
+                new_schema[k] = filtered_item
+
+            for k2, v2 in new_schema.items():
+                new_schema[k2] = filter_schema(new_schema[k2], **kwargs)
+
+    elif isinstance(new_schema, list):
+        for i, item in enumerate(new_schema):
+            if isinstance(item, dict):
+                new_schema[i] = filter_schema(item, **kwargs)
+    return new_schema
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/__init__.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/conftest.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5bc4f2dc9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import pytest
+
+from schemacode import schema, utils
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def schema_dir():
+    """Path to the schema housed in the bids-specification repo."""
+    bids_schema = utils.get_schema_path()
+    return bids_schema
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def schema_obj(schema_dir):
+    """Schema object."""
+    return schema.load_schema(schema_dir)
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_schema.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_schema.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5d1400a778
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_schema.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+"""Tests for the schemacode package."""
+import pytest
+
+from schemacode import schema
+
+
+def test_load_schema(schema_dir):
+    """Smoke test for schemacode.schema.load_schema."""
+    # Pointing to a nonexistent folder should raise a ValueError
+    bad_path = "/path/to/nowhere"
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        schema.load_schema(bad_path)
+
+    # Otherwise the function should return a dictionary
+    schema_obj = schema.load_schema(schema_dir)
+    assert isinstance(schema_obj, dict)
+
+
+def test_object_definitions(schema_obj):
+    """Ensure that object definitions in the schema contain required fields."""
+    for obj_type, obj_type_def in schema_obj["objects"].items():
+        for obj_key, obj_def in obj_type_def.items():
+            # Private/inheritable definitions (ones starting with "_") do not need to conform to
+            # the same rules as user-facing terms, so we skip them
+            if obj_key.startswith("_"):
+                continue
+
+            assert "name" in obj_def.keys(), obj_key
+            assert "description" in obj_def.keys(), obj_key
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_utils.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc2773e8c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+from schemacode import utils
+
+
+def test_combine_extensions():
+    """A unit test for utils.combine_extensions."""
+    test_extensions = ["nii.gz", "nii", "json"]
+    target_combined = ["nii[.gz]", "json"]
+    test_combined = utils.combine_extensions(test_extensions)
+    assert test_combined == target_combined
+
+
+def test_resolve_metadata_type():
+    """A unit test for utils.resolve_metadata_type."""
+    base_definition = {
+        "name": "Term",
+        "description": "A description",
+    }
+
+    # Basic string
+    term_definition1 = base_definition.copy()
+    term_definition1["type"] = "string"
+    target_description = "[string](https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_datatypes.asp)"
+    type_description = utils.resolve_metadata_type(term_definition1)
+    assert target_description == type_description
+
+    # When n/a is the only allowed value, the type should say "n/a"
+    term_definition1["enum"] = ["n/a"]
+    target_description = '`"n/a"`'
+    type_description = utils.resolve_metadata_type(term_definition1)
+    assert target_description == type_description
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/utils.py b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/utils.py
similarity index 88%
rename from tools/schemacode/utils.py
rename to tools/schemacode/schemacode/utils.py
index d6d95b6fc3..3b25b2cd61 100644
--- a/tools/schemacode/utils.py
+++ b/tools/schemacode/schemacode/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-"""Utility functions for the bids-specification schema.
-"""
+"""Utility functions for the bids-specification schema."""
 import logging
 import os.path as op
 from pprint import pprint
@@ -15,9 +14,7 @@ def get_schema_path():
     str
         Absolute path to the folder containing schema-related files.
     """
-    return op.abspath(
-        op.join(op.dirname(op.dirname(op.dirname(__file__))), "src", "schema") + op.sep
-    )
+    return op.abspath(op.join(op.dirname(__file__), "data", "schema"))
 
 
 def combine_extensions(lst):
@@ -90,6 +87,7 @@ def set_logger_level(lgr, level):
 
 def drop_unused_entities(df):
     """Remove columns from a dataframe where all values in the column are NaNs.
+
     For entity tables, this limits each table to only entities that are used
     within the modality.
 
@@ -153,7 +151,18 @@ def get_link(string):
 
 
 def resolve_metadata_type(definition):
-    """Generate string of metadata type from dictionary."""
+    """Generate string of metadata type from dictionary.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    definition : :obj:`dict`
+        A schema object definition for a metadata term.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    string : :obj:`str`
+        A string describing the valid value types for the metadata term.
+    """
     if "type" in definition.keys():
         string = get_link(definition["type"])
 
@@ -167,14 +176,11 @@ def resolve_metadata_type(definition):
 
         elif "type" in definition.get("additionalProperties", {}):
             # Values within objects
-            string += " of " + get_link(
-                definition["additionalProperties"]["type"] + "s"
-            )
+            string += " of " + get_link(definition["additionalProperties"]["type"] + "s")
 
     elif "anyOf" in definition:
         # Use dictionary to get unique substrings while preserving insertion order
-        substrings = {resolve_metadata_type(subdict): None
-                      for subdict in definition["anyOf"]}
+        substrings = {resolve_metadata_type(subdict): None for subdict in definition["anyOf"]}
 
         string = " or ".join(substrings)
 
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/setup.cfg b/tools/schemacode/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5b8b09a0f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+[metadata]
+name = schemacode
+url = https://github.com/bids-standard/schemacode
+author = bids-standard developers
+author_email = bids.maintenance@gmail.com
+description = Python tools for working with the BIDS schema.
+long_description = file:README.md
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=GFM
+license = MIT
+classifiers =
+    Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
+    Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+    Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis
+    License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+
+[options]
+python_requires = >=3.6
+install_requires =
+    numpy
+    pandas
+    tabulate
+    pyyaml
+packages = find:
+include_package_data = false
+zip_safe = false
+
+[options.extras_require]
+doc =
+    sphinx>=1.5.3
+    sphinx_rtd_theme
+tests =
+    codecov
+    coverage<5.0
+    flake8>=3.7
+    flake8-black
+    flake8-isort
+    pytest
+    pytest-cov
+all =
+    %(doc)s
+    %(tests)s
+
+[options.package_data]
+schemacode =
+    data/schema/*/*.yaml
+    data/schema/*/*/*.yaml
+
+[versioneer]
+VCS = git
+style = pep440
+versionfile_source = schemacode/_version.py
+versionfile_build = schemacode/_version.py
+tag_prefix = v
+parentdir_prefix =
+
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 99
+exclude = *build/
+ignore = E203,E402,E722,W503
+per-file-ignores =
+    */__init__.py : F401
+docstring-convention = numpy
+
+[tool:pytest]
+log_cli = true
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/setup.py b/tools/schemacode/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26ade778c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+
+from setuptools import setup
+
+import versioneer
+
+# Give setuptools a hint to complain if it's too old a version
+# 30.3.0 allows us to put most metadata in setup.cfg
+# Should match pyproject.toml
+SETUP_REQUIRES = ["setuptools >= 30.3.0"]
+# This enables setuptools to install wheel on-the-fly
+SETUP_REQUIRES += ["wheel"] if "bdist_wheel" in sys.argv else []
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    setup(
+        name="schemacode",
+        version=versioneer.get_version(),
+        cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
+        setup_requires=SETUP_REQUIRES,
+    )
diff --git a/tools/schemacode/versioneer.py b/tools/schemacode/versioneer.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2da2029331
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/schemacode/versioneer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2149 @@
+# Version: 0.21
+
+"""The Versioneer - like a rocketeer, but for versions.
+
+The Versioneer
+==============
+
+* like a rocketeer, but for versions!
+* https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer
+* Brian Warner
+* License: Public Domain
+* Compatible with: Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and pypy3
+* [![Latest Version][pypi-image]][pypi-url]
+* [![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url]
+
+This is a tool for managing a recorded version number in distutils-based
+python projects. The goal is to remove the tedious and error-prone "update
+the embedded version string" step from your release process. Making a new
+release should be as easy as recording a new tag in your version-control
+system, and maybe making new tarballs.
+
+
+## Quick Install
+
+* `pip install versioneer` to somewhere in your $PATH
+* add a `[versioneer]` section to your setup.cfg (see [Install](INSTALL.md))
+* run `versioneer install` in your source tree, commit the results
+* Verify version information with `python setup.py version`
+
+## Version Identifiers
+
+Source trees come from a variety of places:
+
+* a version-control system checkout (mostly used by developers)
+* a nightly tarball, produced by build automation
+* a snapshot tarball, produced by a web-based VCS browser, like github's
+  "tarball from tag" feature
+* a release tarball, produced by "setup.py sdist", distributed through PyPI
+
+Within each source tree, the version identifier (either a string or a number,
+this tool is format-agnostic) can come from a variety of places:
+
+* ask the VCS tool itself, e.g. "git describe" (for checkouts), which knows
+  about recent "tags" and an absolute revision-id
+* the name of the directory into which the tarball was unpacked
+* an expanded VCS keyword ($Id$, etc)
+* a `_version.py` created by some earlier build step
+
+For released software, the version identifier is closely related to a VCS
+tag. Some projects use tag names that include more than just the version
+string (e.g. "myproject-1.2" instead of just "1.2"), in which case the tool
+needs to strip the tag prefix to extract the version identifier. For
+unreleased software (between tags), the version identifier should provide
+enough information to help developers recreate the same tree, while also
+giving them an idea of roughly how old the tree is (after version 1.2, before
+version 1.3). Many VCS systems can report a description that captures this,
+for example `git describe --tags --dirty --always` reports things like
+"0.7-1-g574ab98-dirty" to indicate that the checkout is one revision past the
+0.7 tag, has a unique revision id of "574ab98", and is "dirty" (it has
+uncommitted changes).
+
+The version identifier is used for multiple purposes:
+
+* to allow the module to self-identify its version: `myproject.__version__`
+* to choose a name and prefix for a 'setup.py sdist' tarball
+
+## Theory of Operation
+
+Versioneer works by adding a special `_version.py` file into your source
+tree, where your `__init__.py` can import it. This `_version.py` knows how to
+dynamically ask the VCS tool for version information at import time.
+
+`_version.py` also contains `$Revision$` markers, and the installation
+process marks `_version.py` to have this marker rewritten with a tag name
+during the `git archive` command. As a result, generated tarballs will
+contain enough information to get the proper version.
+
+To allow `setup.py` to compute a version too, a `versioneer.py` is added to
+the top level of your source tree, next to `setup.py` and the `setup.cfg`
+that configures it. This overrides several distutils/setuptools commands to
+compute the version when invoked, and changes `setup.py build` and `setup.py
+sdist` to replace `_version.py` with a small static file that contains just
+the generated version data.
+
+## Installation
+
+See [INSTALL.md](./INSTALL.md) for detailed installation instructions.
+
+## Version-String Flavors
+
+Code which uses Versioneer can learn about its version string at runtime by
+importing `_version` from your main `__init__.py` file and running the
+`get_versions()` function. From the "outside" (e.g. in `setup.py`), you can
+import the top-level `versioneer.py` and run `get_versions()`.
+
+Both functions return a dictionary with different flavors of version
+information:
+
+* `['version']`: A condensed version string, rendered using the selected
+  style. This is the most commonly used value for the project's version
+  string. The default "pep440" style yields strings like `0.11`,
+  `0.11+2.g1076c97`, or `0.11+2.g1076c97.dirty`. See the "Styles" section
+  below for alternative styles.
+
+* `['full-revisionid']`: detailed revision identifier. For Git, this is the
+  full SHA1 commit id, e.g. "1076c978a8d3cfc70f408fe5974aa6c092c949ac".
+
+* `['date']`: Date and time of the latest `HEAD` commit. For Git, it is the
+  commit date in ISO 8601 format. This will be None if the date is not
+  available.
+
+* `['dirty']`: a boolean, True if the tree has uncommitted changes. Note that
+  this is only accurate if run in a VCS checkout, otherwise it is likely to
+  be False or None
+
+* `['error']`: if the version string could not be computed, this will be set
+  to a string describing the problem, otherwise it will be None. It may be
+  useful to throw an exception in setup.py if this is set, to avoid e.g.
+  creating tarballs with a version string of "unknown".
+
+Some variants are more useful than others. Including `full-revisionid` in a
+bug report should allow developers to reconstruct the exact code being tested
+(or indicate the presence of local changes that should be shared with the
+developers). `version` is suitable for display in an "about" box or a CLI
+`--version` output: it can be easily compared against release notes and lists
+of bugs fixed in various releases.
+
+The installer adds the following text to your `__init__.py` to place a basic
+version in `YOURPROJECT.__version__`:
+
+    from ._version import get_versions
+    __version__ = get_versions()['version']
+    del get_versions
+
+## Styles
+
+The setup.cfg `style=` configuration controls how the VCS information is
+rendered into a version string.
+
+The default style, "pep440", produces a PEP440-compliant string, equal to the
+un-prefixed tag name for actual releases, and containing an additional "local
+version" section with more detail for in-between builds. For Git, this is
+TAG[+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] , using information from `git describe --tags
+--dirty --always`. For example "0.11+2.g1076c97.dirty" indicates that the
+tree is like the "1076c97" commit but has uncommitted changes (".dirty"), and
+that this commit is two revisions ("+2") beyond the "0.11" tag. For released
+software (exactly equal to a known tag), the identifier will only contain the
+stripped tag, e.g. "0.11".
+
+Other styles are available. See [details.md](details.md) in the Versioneer
+source tree for descriptions.
+
+## Debugging
+
+Versioneer tries to avoid fatal errors: if something goes wrong, it will tend
+to return a version of "0+unknown". To investigate the problem, run `setup.py
+version`, which will run the version-lookup code in a verbose mode, and will
+display the full contents of `get_versions()` (including the `error` string,
+which may help identify what went wrong).
+
+## Known Limitations
+
+Some situations are known to cause problems for Versioneer. This details the
+most significant ones. More can be found on Github
+[issues page](https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/issues).
+
+### Subprojects
+
+Versioneer has limited support for source trees in which `setup.py` is not in
+the root directory (e.g. `setup.py` and `.git/` are *not* siblings). The are
+two common reasons why `setup.py` might not be in the root:
+
+* Source trees which contain multiple subprojects, such as
+  [Buildbot](https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot), which contains both
+  "master" and "slave" subprojects, each with their own `setup.py`,
+  `setup.cfg`, and `tox.ini`. Projects like these produce multiple PyPI
+  distributions (and upload multiple independently-installable tarballs).
+* Source trees whose main purpose is to contain a C library, but which also
+  provide bindings to Python (and perhaps other languages) in subdirectories.
+
+Versioneer will look for `.git` in parent directories, and most operations
+should get the right version string. However `pip` and `setuptools` have bugs
+and implementation details which frequently cause `pip install .` from a
+subproject directory to fail to find a correct version string (so it usually
+defaults to `0+unknown`).
+
+`pip install --editable .` should work correctly. `setup.py install` might
+work too.
+
+Pip-8.1.1 is known to have this problem, but hopefully it will get fixed in
+some later version.
+
+[Bug #38](https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/issues/38) is tracking
+this issue. The discussion in
+[PR #61](https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/pull/61) describes the
+issue from the Versioneer side in more detail.
+[pip PR#3176](https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3176) and
+[pip PR#3615](https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3615) contain work to improve
+pip to let Versioneer work correctly.
+
+Versioneer-0.16 and earlier only looked for a `.git` directory next to the
+`setup.cfg`, so subprojects were completely unsupported with those releases.
+
+### Editable installs with setuptools <= 18.5
+
+`setup.py develop` and `pip install --editable .` allow you to install a
+project into a virtualenv once, then continue editing the source code (and
+test) without re-installing after every change.
+
+"Entry-point scripts" (`setup(entry_points={"console_scripts": ..})`) are a
+convenient way to specify executable scripts that should be installed along
+with the python package.
+
+These both work as expected when using modern setuptools. When using
+setuptools-18.5 or earlier, however, certain operations will cause
+`pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound` errors when running the entrypoint
+script, which must be resolved by re-installing the package. This happens
+when the install happens with one version, then the egg_info data is
+regenerated while a different version is checked out. Many setup.py commands
+cause egg_info to be rebuilt (including `sdist`, `wheel`, and installing into
+a different virtualenv), so this can be surprising.
+
+[Bug #83](https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/issues/83) describes
+this one, but upgrading to a newer version of setuptools should probably
+resolve it.
+
+
+## Updating Versioneer
+
+To upgrade your project to a new release of Versioneer, do the following:
+
+* install the new Versioneer (`pip install -U versioneer` or equivalent)
+* edit `setup.cfg`, if necessary, to include any new configuration settings
+  indicated by the release notes. See [UPGRADING](./UPGRADING.md) for details.
+* re-run `versioneer install` in your source tree, to replace
+  `SRC/_version.py`
+* commit any changed files
+
+## Future Directions
+
+This tool is designed to make it easily extended to other version-control
+systems: all VCS-specific components are in separate directories like
+src/git/ . The top-level `versioneer.py` script is assembled from these
+components by running make-versioneer.py . In the future, make-versioneer.py
+will take a VCS name as an argument, and will construct a version of
+`versioneer.py` that is specific to the given VCS. It might also take the
+configuration arguments that are currently provided manually during
+installation by editing setup.py . Alternatively, it might go the other
+direction and include code from all supported VCS systems, reducing the
+number of intermediate scripts.
+
+## Similar projects
+
+* [setuptools_scm](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/) - a non-vendored build-time
+  dependency
+* [minver](https://github.com/jbweston/miniver) - a lightweight reimplementation of
+  versioneer
+* [versioningit](https://github.com/jwodder/versioningit) - a PEP 518-based setuptools
+  plugin
+
+## License
+
+To make Versioneer easier to embed, all its code is dedicated to the public
+domain. The `_version.py` that it creates is also in the public domain.
+Specifically, both are released under the Creative Commons "Public Domain
+Dedication" license (CC0-1.0), as described in
+https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ .
+
+[pypi-image]: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/versioneer.svg
+[pypi-url]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/versioneer/
+[travis-image]:
+https://img.shields.io/travis/com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer.svg
+[travis-url]: https://travis-ci.com/github/python-versioneer/python-versioneer
+
+"""
+# pylint:disable=invalid-name,import-outside-toplevel,missing-function-docstring
+# pylint:disable=missing-class-docstring,too-many-branches,too-many-statements
+# pylint:disable=raise-missing-from,too-many-lines,too-many-locals,import-error
+# pylint:disable=too-few-public-methods,redefined-outer-name,consider-using-with
+# pylint:disable=attribute-defined-outside-init,too-many-arguments
+
+import configparser
+import errno
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from typing import Callable, Dict
+
+
+class VersioneerConfig:
+    """Container for Versioneer configuration parameters."""
+
+
+def get_root():
+    """Get the project root directory.
+
+    We require that all commands are run from the project root, i.e. the
+    directory that contains setup.py, setup.cfg, and versioneer.py .
+    """
+    root = os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(os.getcwd()))
+    setup_py = os.path.join(root, "setup.py")
+    versioneer_py = os.path.join(root, "versioneer.py")
+    if not (os.path.exists(setup_py) or os.path.exists(versioneer_py)):
+        # allow 'python path/to/setup.py COMMAND'
+        root = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))
+        setup_py = os.path.join(root, "setup.py")
+        versioneer_py = os.path.join(root, "versioneer.py")
+    if not (os.path.exists(setup_py) or os.path.exists(versioneer_py)):
+        err = (
+            "Versioneer was unable to run the project root directory. "
+            "Versioneer requires setup.py to be executed from "
+            "its immediate directory (like 'python setup.py COMMAND'), "
+            "or in a way that lets it use sys.argv[0] to find the root "
+            "(like 'python path/to/setup.py COMMAND')."
+        )
+        raise VersioneerBadRootError(err)
+    try:
+        # Certain runtime workflows (setup.py install/develop in a setuptools
+        # tree) execute all dependencies in a single python process, so
+        # "versioneer" may be imported multiple times, and python's shared
+        # module-import table will cache the first one. So we can't use
+        # os.path.dirname(__file__), as that will find whichever
+        # versioneer.py was first imported, even in later projects.
+        my_path = os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+        me_dir = os.path.normcase(os.path.splitext(my_path)[0])
+        vsr_dir = os.path.normcase(os.path.splitext(versioneer_py)[0])
+        if me_dir != vsr_dir:
+            print(
+                "Warning: build in %s is using versioneer.py from %s"
+                % (os.path.dirname(my_path), versioneer_py)
+            )
+    except NameError:
+        pass
+    return root
+
+
+def get_config_from_root(root):
+    """Read the project setup.cfg file to determine Versioneer config."""
+    # This might raise OSError (if setup.cfg is missing), or
+    # configparser.NoSectionError (if it lacks a [versioneer] section), or
+    # configparser.NoOptionError (if it lacks "VCS="). See the docstring at
+    # the top of versioneer.py for instructions on writing your setup.cfg .
+    setup_cfg = os.path.join(root, "setup.cfg")
+    parser = configparser.ConfigParser()
+    with open(setup_cfg, "r") as cfg_file:
+        parser.read_file(cfg_file)
+    VCS = parser.get("versioneer", "VCS")  # mandatory
+
+    # Dict-like interface for non-mandatory entries
+    section = parser["versioneer"]
+
+    cfg = VersioneerConfig()
+    cfg.VCS = VCS
+    cfg.style = section.get("style", "")
+    cfg.versionfile_source = section.get("versionfile_source")
+    cfg.versionfile_build = section.get("versionfile_build")
+    cfg.tag_prefix = section.get("tag_prefix")
+    if cfg.tag_prefix in ("''", '""'):
+        cfg.tag_prefix = ""
+    cfg.parentdir_prefix = section.get("parentdir_prefix")
+    cfg.verbose = section.get("verbose")
+    return cfg
+
+
+class NotThisMethod(Exception):
+    """Exception raised if a method is not valid for the current scenario."""
+
+
+# these dictionaries contain VCS-specific tools
+LONG_VERSION_PY: Dict[str, str] = {}
+HANDLERS: Dict[str, Dict[str, Callable]] = {}
+
+
+def register_vcs_handler(vcs, method):  # decorator
+    """Create decorator to mark a method as the handler of a VCS."""
+
+    def decorate(f):
+        """Store f in HANDLERS[vcs][method]."""
+        HANDLERS.setdefault(vcs, {})[method] = f
+        return f
+
+    return decorate
+
+
+def run_command(commands, args, cwd=None, verbose=False, hide_stderr=False, env=None):
+    """Call the given command(s)."""
+    assert isinstance(commands, list)
+    process = None
+    for command in commands:
+        try:
+            dispcmd = str([command] + args)
+            # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+            process = subprocess.Popen(
+                [command] + args,
+                cwd=cwd,
+                env=env,
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                stderr=(subprocess.PIPE if hide_stderr else None),
+            )
+            break
+        except OSError:
+            e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+            if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("unable to run %s" % dispcmd)
+                print(e)
+            return None, None
+    else:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to find command, tried %s" % (commands,))
+        return None, None
+    stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip().decode()
+    if process.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % dispcmd)
+            print("stdout was %s" % stdout)
+        return None, process.returncode
+    return stdout, process.returncode
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY[
+    "git"
+] = r'''
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (built by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.21 (https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer)
+
+"""Git implementation of _version.py."""
+
+import errno
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from typing import Callable, Dict
+
+
+def get_keywords():
+    """Get the keywords needed to look up the version information."""
+    # these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive.
+    # setup.py/versioneer.py will grep for the variable names, so they must
+    # each be defined on a line of their own. _version.py will just call
+    # get_keywords().
+    git_refnames = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%d%(DOLLAR)s"
+    git_full = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%H%(DOLLAR)s"
+    git_date = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%ci%(DOLLAR)s"
+    keywords = {"refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full, "date": git_date}
+    return keywords
+
+
+class VersioneerConfig:
+    """Container for Versioneer configuration parameters."""
+
+
+def get_config():
+    """Create, populate and return the VersioneerConfig() object."""
+    # these strings are filled in when 'setup.py versioneer' creates
+    # _version.py
+    cfg = VersioneerConfig()
+    cfg.VCS = "git"
+    cfg.style = "%(STYLE)s"
+    cfg.tag_prefix = "%(TAG_PREFIX)s"
+    cfg.parentdir_prefix = "%(PARENTDIR_PREFIX)s"
+    cfg.versionfile_source = "%(VERSIONFILE_SOURCE)s"
+    cfg.verbose = False
+    return cfg
+
+
+class NotThisMethod(Exception):
+    """Exception raised if a method is not valid for the current scenario."""
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY: Dict[str, str] = {}
+HANDLERS: Dict[str, Dict[str, Callable]] = {}
+
+
+def register_vcs_handler(vcs, method):  # decorator
+    """Create decorator to mark a method as the handler of a VCS."""
+    def decorate(f):
+        """Store f in HANDLERS[vcs][method]."""
+        if vcs not in HANDLERS:
+            HANDLERS[vcs] = {}
+        HANDLERS[vcs][method] = f
+        return f
+    return decorate
+
+
+def run_command(commands, args, cwd=None, verbose=False, hide_stderr=False,
+                env=None):
+    """Call the given command(s)."""
+    assert isinstance(commands, list)
+    process = None
+    for command in commands:
+        try:
+            dispcmd = str([command] + args)
+            # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+            process = subprocess.Popen([command] + args, cwd=cwd, env=env,
+                                       stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                       stderr=(subprocess.PIPE if hide_stderr
+                                               else None))
+            break
+        except OSError:
+            e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+            if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("unable to run %%s" %% dispcmd)
+                print(e)
+            return None, None
+    else:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to find command, tried %%s" %% (commands,))
+        return None, None
+    stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip().decode()
+    if process.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s (error)" %% dispcmd)
+            print("stdout was %%s" %% stdout)
+        return None, process.returncode
+    return stdout, process.returncode
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose):
+    """Try to determine the version from the parent directory name.
+
+    Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes both
+    the project name and a version string. We will also support searching up
+    two directory levels for an appropriately named parent directory
+    """
+    rootdirs = []
+
+    for _ in range(3):
+        dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+        if dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+            return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):],
+                    "full-revisionid": None,
+                    "dirty": False, "error": None, "date": None}
+        rootdirs.append(root)
+        root = os.path.dirname(root)  # up a level
+
+    if verbose:
+        print("Tried directories %%s but none started with prefix %%s" %%
+              (str(rootdirs), parentdir_prefix))
+    raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "get_keywords")
+def git_get_keywords(versionfile_abs):
+    """Extract version information from the given file."""
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # keywords. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import _version.py,
+    # so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not used from
+    # _version.py.
+    keywords = {}
+    try:
+        with open(versionfile_abs, "r") as fobj:
+            for line in fobj:
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["full"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_date ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["date"] = mo.group(1)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    return keywords
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "keywords")
+def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
+    """Get version information from git keywords."""
+    if "refnames" not in keywords:
+        raise NotThisMethod("Short version file found")
+    date = keywords.get("date")
+    if date is not None:
+        # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+        # information.
+        date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+
+        # git-2.2.0 added "%%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
+        # datestamp. However we prefer "%%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
+        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
+        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
+        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
+        # older one.
+        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
+        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
+    refs = {r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")}
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = {r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)}
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %%d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = {r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)}
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%%s', no digits" %% ",".join(refs - tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %%s" %% ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            # Filter out refs that exactly match prefix or that don't start
+            # with a number once the prefix is stripped (mostly a concern
+            # when prefix is '')
+            if not re.match(r'\d', r):
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %%s" %% r)
+            return {"version": r,
+                    "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+                    "dirty": False, "error": None,
+                    "date": date}
+    # no suitable tags, so version is "0+unknown", but full hex is still there
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using unknown + full revision id")
+    return {"version": "0+unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+            "dirty": False, "error": "no suitable tags", "date": None}
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "pieces_from_vcs")
+def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, runner=run_command):
+    """Get version from 'git describe' in the root of the source tree.
+
+    This only gets called if the git-archive 'subst' keywords were *not*
+    expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
+    version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+    """
+    GITS = ["git"]
+    TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = "*"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]
+        TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = r"\*"
+
+    _, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root,
+                   hide_stderr=True)
+    if rc != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("Directory %%s not under git control" %% root)
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")
+
+    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
+    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
+    describe_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["describe", "--tags", "--dirty",
+                                     "--always", "--long",
+                                     "--match",
+                                     "%%s%%s" %% (tag_prefix, TAG_PREFIX_REGEX)],
+                              cwd=root)
+    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
+    if describe_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
+    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
+    full_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if full_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
+    full_out = full_out.strip()
+
+    pieces = {}
+    pieces["long"] = full_out
+    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
+    pieces["error"] = None
+
+    branch_name, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"],
+                             cwd=root)
+    # --abbrev-ref was added in git-1.6.3
+    if rc != 0 or branch_name is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --abbrev-ref' returned error")
+    branch_name = branch_name.strip()
+
+    if branch_name == "HEAD":
+        # If we aren't exactly on a branch, pick a branch which represents
+        # the current commit. If all else fails, we are on a branchless
+        # commit.
+        branches, rc = runner(GITS, ["branch", "--contains"], cwd=root)
+        # --contains was added in git-1.5.4
+        if rc != 0 or branches is None:
+            raise NotThisMethod("'git branch --contains' returned error")
+        branches = branches.split("\n")
+
+        # Remove the first line if we're running detached
+        if "(" in branches[0]:
+            branches.pop(0)
+
+        # Strip off the leading "* " from the list of branches.
+        branches = [branch[2:] for branch in branches]
+        if "master" in branches:
+            branch_name = "master"
+        elif not branches:
+            branch_name = None
+        else:
+            # Pick the first branch that is returned. Good or bad.
+            branch_name = branches[0]
+
+    pieces["branch"] = branch_name
+
+    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
+    # TAG might have hyphens.
+    git_describe = describe_out
+
+    # look for -dirty suffix
+    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
+    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
+    if dirty:
+        git_describe = git_describe[:git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]
+
+    # now we have TAG-NUM-gHEX or HEX
+
+    if "-" in git_describe:
+        # TAG-NUM-gHEX
+        mo = re.search(r'^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$', git_describe)
+        if not mo:
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            pieces["error"] = ("unable to parse git-describe output: '%%s'"
+                               %% describe_out)
+            return pieces
+
+        # tag
+        full_tag = mo.group(1)
+        if not full_tag.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            if verbose:
+                fmt = "tag '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'"
+                print(fmt %% (full_tag, tag_prefix))
+            pieces["error"] = ("tag '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'"
+                               %% (full_tag, tag_prefix))
+            return pieces
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = full_tag[len(tag_prefix):]
+
+        # distance: number of commits since tag
+        pieces["distance"] = int(mo.group(2))
+
+        # commit: short hex revision ID
+        pieces["short"] = mo.group(3)
+
+    else:
+        # HEX: no tags
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = None
+        count_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-list", "HEAD", "--count"], cwd=root)
+        pieces["distance"] = int(count_out)  # total number of commits
+
+    # commit date: see ISO-8601 comment in git_versions_from_keywords()
+    date = runner(GITS, ["show", "-s", "--format=%%ci", "HEAD"], cwd=root)[0].strip()
+    # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+    # information.
+    date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+    pieces["date"] = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+
+    return pieces
+
+
+def plus_or_dot(pieces):
+    """Return a + if we don't already have one, else return a ."""
+    if "+" in pieces.get("closest-tag", ""):
+        return "."
+    return "+"
+
+
+def render_pep440(pieces):
+    """Build up version string, with post-release "local version identifier".
+
+    Our goal: TAG[+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] . Note that if you
+    get a tagged build and then dirty it, you'll get TAG+0.gHEX.dirty
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. git_describe was just HEX. 0+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%%d.g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0+untagged.%%d.g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"],
+                                          pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[[.dev0]+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a feature branch will appear "older" than the master branch).
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0[.dev0]+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%%d.g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0"
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+untagged.%%d.g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"],
+                                          pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def pep440_split_post(ver):
+    """Split pep440 version string at the post-release segment.
+
+    Returns the release segments before the post-release and the
+    post-release version number (or -1 if no post-release segment is present).
+    """
+    vc = str.split(ver, ".post")
+    return vc[0], int(vc[1] or 0) if len(vc) == 2 else None
+
+
+def render_pep440_pre(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postN.devDISTANCE] -- No -dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.post0.devDISTANCE
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            # update the post release segment
+            tag_version, post_version = pep440_split_post(pieces["closest-tag"])
+            rendered = tag_version
+            if post_version is not None:
+                rendered += ".post%%d.dev%%d" %% (post_version+1, pieces["distance"])
+            else:
+                rendered += ".post0.dev%%d" %% (pieces["distance"])
+        else:
+            # no commits, use the tag as the version
+            rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post0.dev%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a dirty tree will appear "older" than the corresponding clean one),
+    but you shouldn't be releasing software with -dirty anyways.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%%s" %% pieces["short"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%%s" %% pieces["short"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%%s" %% pieces["short"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%%s" %% pieces["short"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_old(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%%d" %% pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe(pieces):
+    """TAG[-DISTANCE-gHEX][-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always'.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            rendered += "-%%d-g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe_long(pieces):
+    """TAG-DISTANCE-gHEX[-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always -long'.
+    The distance/hash is unconditional.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        rendered += "-%%d-g%%s" %% (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render(pieces, style):
+    """Render the given version pieces into the requested style."""
+    if pieces["error"]:
+        return {"version": "unknown",
+                "full-revisionid": pieces.get("long"),
+                "dirty": None,
+                "error": pieces["error"],
+                "date": None}
+
+    if not style or style == "default":
+        style = "pep440"  # the default
+
+    if style == "pep440":
+        rendered = render_pep440(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-pre":
+        rendered = render_pep440_pre(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-old":
+        rendered = render_pep440_old(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe":
+        rendered = render_git_describe(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe-long":
+        rendered = render_git_describe_long(pieces)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("unknown style '%%s'" %% style)
+
+    return {"version": rendered, "full-revisionid": pieces["long"],
+            "dirty": pieces["dirty"], "error": None,
+            "date": pieces.get("date")}
+
+
+def get_versions():
+    """Get version information or return default if unable to do so."""
+    # I am in _version.py, which lives at ROOT/VERSIONFILE_SOURCE. If we have
+    # __file__, we can work backwards from there to the root. Some
+    # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__, in which
+    # case we can only use expanded keywords.
+
+    cfg = get_config()
+    verbose = cfg.verbose
+
+    try:
+        return git_versions_from_keywords(get_keywords(), cfg.tag_prefix,
+                                          verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        root = os.path.realpath(__file__)
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert
+        # this to find the root from __file__.
+        for _ in cfg.versionfile_source.split('/'):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    except NameError:
+        return {"version": "0+unknown", "full-revisionid": None,
+                "dirty": None,
+                "error": "unable to find root of source tree",
+                "date": None}
+
+    try:
+        pieces = git_pieces_from_vcs(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
+        return render(pieces, cfg.style)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
+            return versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    return {"version": "0+unknown", "full-revisionid": None,
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": "unable to compute version", "date": None}
+'''
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "get_keywords")
+def git_get_keywords(versionfile_abs):
+    """Extract version information from the given file."""
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # keywords. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import _version.py,
+    # so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not used from
+    # _version.py.
+    keywords = {}
+    try:
+        with open(versionfile_abs, "r") as fobj:
+            for line in fobj:
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["full"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_date ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["date"] = mo.group(1)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    return keywords
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "keywords")
+def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
+    """Get version information from git keywords."""
+    if "refnames" not in keywords:
+        raise NotThisMethod("Short version file found")
+    date = keywords.get("date")
+    if date is not None:
+        # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+        # information.
+        date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+
+        # git-2.2.0 added "%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
+        # datestamp. However we prefer "%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
+        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
+        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
+        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
+        # older one.
+        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
+        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
+    refs = {r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")}
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = {r[len(TAG) :] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)}
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = {r for r in refs if re.search(r"\d", r)}
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs - tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix) :]
+            # Filter out refs that exactly match prefix or that don't start
+            # with a number once the prefix is stripped (mostly a concern
+            # when prefix is '')
+            if not re.match(r"\d", r):
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return {
+                "version": r,
+                "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": date,
+            }
+    # no suitable tags, so version is "0+unknown", but full hex is still there
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using unknown + full revision id")
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+        "dirty": False,
+        "error": "no suitable tags",
+        "date": None,
+    }
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "pieces_from_vcs")
+def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, runner=run_command):
+    """Get version from 'git describe' in the root of the source tree.
+
+    This only gets called if the git-archive 'subst' keywords were *not*
+    expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
+    version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+    """
+    GITS = ["git"]
+    TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = "*"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]
+        TAG_PREFIX_REGEX = r"\*"
+
+    _, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root, hide_stderr=True)
+    if rc != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")
+
+    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
+    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
+    describe_out, rc = runner(
+        GITS,
+        [
+            "describe",
+            "--tags",
+            "--dirty",
+            "--always",
+            "--long",
+            "--match",
+            "%s%s" % (tag_prefix, TAG_PREFIX_REGEX),
+        ],
+        cwd=root,
+    )
+    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
+    if describe_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
+    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
+    full_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if full_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
+    full_out = full_out.strip()
+
+    pieces = {}
+    pieces["long"] = full_out
+    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
+    pieces["error"] = None
+
+    branch_name, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    # --abbrev-ref was added in git-1.6.3
+    if rc != 0 or branch_name is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --abbrev-ref' returned error")
+    branch_name = branch_name.strip()
+
+    if branch_name == "HEAD":
+        # If we aren't exactly on a branch, pick a branch which represents
+        # the current commit. If all else fails, we are on a branchless
+        # commit.
+        branches, rc = runner(GITS, ["branch", "--contains"], cwd=root)
+        # --contains was added in git-1.5.4
+        if rc != 0 or branches is None:
+            raise NotThisMethod("'git branch --contains' returned error")
+        branches = branches.split("\n")
+
+        # Remove the first line if we're running detached
+        if "(" in branches[0]:
+            branches.pop(0)
+
+        # Strip off the leading "* " from the list of branches.
+        branches = [branch[2:] for branch in branches]
+        if "master" in branches:
+            branch_name = "master"
+        elif not branches:
+            branch_name = None
+        else:
+            # Pick the first branch that is returned. Good or bad.
+            branch_name = branches[0]
+
+    pieces["branch"] = branch_name
+
+    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
+    # TAG might have hyphens.
+    git_describe = describe_out
+
+    # look for -dirty suffix
+    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
+    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
+    if dirty:
+        git_describe = git_describe[: git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]
+
+    # now we have TAG-NUM-gHEX or HEX
+
+    if "-" in git_describe:
+        # TAG-NUM-gHEX
+        mo = re.search(r"^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$", git_describe)
+        if not mo:
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            pieces["error"] = "unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'" % describe_out
+            return pieces
+
+        # tag
+        full_tag = mo.group(1)
+        if not full_tag.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            if verbose:
+                fmt = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'"
+                print(fmt % (full_tag, tag_prefix))
+            pieces["error"] = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (full_tag, tag_prefix)
+            return pieces
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = full_tag[len(tag_prefix) :]
+
+        # distance: number of commits since tag
+        pieces["distance"] = int(mo.group(2))
+
+        # commit: short hex revision ID
+        pieces["short"] = mo.group(3)
+
+    else:
+        # HEX: no tags
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = None
+        count_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-list", "HEAD", "--count"], cwd=root)
+        pieces["distance"] = int(count_out)  # total number of commits
+
+    # commit date: see ISO-8601 comment in git_versions_from_keywords()
+    date = runner(GITS, ["show", "-s", "--format=%ci", "HEAD"], cwd=root)[0].strip()
+    # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+    # information.
+    date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+    pieces["date"] = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+
+    return pieces
+
+
+def do_vcs_install(manifest_in, versionfile_source, ipy):
+    """Git-specific installation logic for Versioneer.
+
+    For Git, this means creating/changing .gitattributes to mark _version.py
+    for export-subst keyword substitution.
+    """
+    GITS = ["git"]
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]
+    files = [manifest_in, versionfile_source]
+    if ipy:
+        files.append(ipy)
+    try:
+        my_path = __file__
+        if my_path.endswith(".pyc") or my_path.endswith(".pyo"):
+            my_path = os.path.splitext(my_path)[0] + ".py"
+        versioneer_file = os.path.relpath(my_path)
+    except NameError:
+        versioneer_file = "versioneer.py"
+    files.append(versioneer_file)
+    present = False
+    try:
+        with open(".gitattributes", "r") as fobj:
+            for line in fobj:
+                if line.strip().startswith(versionfile_source):
+                    if "export-subst" in line.strip().split()[1:]:
+                        present = True
+                        break
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    if not present:
+        with open(".gitattributes", "a+") as fobj:
+            fobj.write(f"{versionfile_source} export-subst\n")
+        files.append(".gitattributes")
+    run_command(GITS, ["add", "--"] + files)
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose):
+    """Try to determine the version from the parent directory name.
+
+    Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes both
+    the project name and a version string. We will also support searching up
+    two directory levels for an appropriately named parent directory
+    """
+    rootdirs = []
+
+    for _ in range(3):
+        dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+        if dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+            return {
+                "version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix) :],
+                "full-revisionid": None,
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": None,
+            }
+        rootdirs.append(root)
+        root = os.path.dirname(root)  # up a level
+
+    if verbose:
+        print(
+            "Tried directories %s but none started with prefix %s"
+            % (str(rootdirs), parentdir_prefix)
+        )
+    raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
+
+
+SHORT_VERSION_PY = """
+# This file was generated by 'versioneer.py' (0.21) from
+# revision-control system data, or from the parent directory name of an
+# unpacked source archive. Distribution tarballs contain a pre-generated copy
+# of this file.
+
+import json
+
+version_json = '''
+%s
+'''  # END VERSION_JSON
+
+
+def get_versions():
+    return json.loads(version_json)
+"""
+
+
+def versions_from_file(filename):
+    """Try to determine the version from _version.py if present."""
+    try:
+        with open(filename) as f:
+            contents = f.read()
+    except OSError:
+        raise NotThisMethod("unable to read _version.py")
+    mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON", contents, re.M | re.S)
+    if not mo:
+        mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\r\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON", contents, re.M | re.S)
+    if not mo:
+        raise NotThisMethod("no version_json in _version.py")
+    return json.loads(mo.group(1))
+
+
+def write_to_version_file(filename, versions):
+    """Write the given version number to the given _version.py file."""
+    os.unlink(filename)
+    contents = json.dumps(versions, sort_keys=True, indent=1, separators=(",", ": "))
+    with open(filename, "w") as f:
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % contents)
+
+    print("set %s to '%s'" % (filename, versions["version"]))
+
+
+def plus_or_dot(pieces):
+    """Return a + if we don't already have one, else return a ."""
+    if "+" in pieces.get("closest-tag", ""):
+        return "."
+    return "+"
+
+
+def render_pep440(pieces):
+    """Build up version string, with post-release "local version identifier".
+
+    Our goal: TAG[+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] . Note that if you
+    get a tagged build and then dirty it, you'll get TAG+0.gHEX.dirty
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. git_describe was just HEX. 0+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[[.dev0]+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a feature branch will appear "older" than the master branch).
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0[.dev0]+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0"
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def pep440_split_post(ver):
+    """Split pep440 version string at the post-release segment.
+
+    Returns the release segments before the post-release and the
+    post-release version number (or -1 if no post-release segment is present).
+    """
+    vc = str.split(ver, ".post")
+    return vc[0], int(vc[1] or 0) if len(vc) == 2 else None
+
+
+def render_pep440_pre(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postN.devDISTANCE] -- No -dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.post0.devDISTANCE
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            # update the post release segment
+            tag_version, post_version = pep440_split_post(pieces["closest-tag"])
+            rendered = tag_version
+            if post_version is not None:
+                rendered += ".post%d.dev%d" % (post_version + 1, pieces["distance"])
+            else:
+                rendered += ".post0.dev%d" % (pieces["distance"])
+        else:
+            # no commits, use the tag as the version
+            rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post0.dev%d" % pieces["distance"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a dirty tree will appear "older" than the corresponding clean one),
+    but you shouldn't be releasing software with -dirty anyways.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post_branch(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_old(pieces):
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe(pieces):
+    """TAG[-DISTANCE-gHEX][-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always'.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe_long(pieces):
+    """TAG-DISTANCE-gHEX[-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always -long'.
+    The distance/hash is unconditional.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render(pieces, style):
+    """Render the given version pieces into the requested style."""
+    if pieces["error"]:
+        return {
+            "version": "unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": pieces.get("long"),
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": pieces["error"],
+            "date": None,
+        }
+
+    if not style or style == "default":
+        style = "pep440"  # the default
+
+    if style == "pep440":
+        rendered = render_pep440(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-pre":
+        rendered = render_pep440_pre(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-old":
+        rendered = render_pep440_old(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe":
+        rendered = render_git_describe(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe-long":
+        rendered = render_git_describe_long(pieces)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("unknown style '%s'" % style)
+
+    return {
+        "version": rendered,
+        "full-revisionid": pieces["long"],
+        "dirty": pieces["dirty"],
+        "error": None,
+        "date": pieces.get("date"),
+    }
+
+
+class VersioneerBadRootError(Exception):
+    """The project root directory is unknown or missing key files."""
+
+
+def get_versions(verbose=False):
+    """Get the project version from whatever source is available.
+
+    Returns dict with two keys: 'version' and 'full'.
+    """
+    if "versioneer" in sys.modules:
+        # see the discussion in cmdclass.py:get_cmdclass()
+        del sys.modules["versioneer"]
+
+    root = get_root()
+    cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+
+    assert cfg.VCS is not None, "please set [versioneer]VCS= in setup.cfg"
+    handlers = HANDLERS.get(cfg.VCS)
+    assert handlers, "unrecognized VCS '%s'" % cfg.VCS
+    verbose = verbose or cfg.verbose
+    assert cfg.versionfile_source is not None, "please set versioneer.versionfile_source"
+    assert cfg.tag_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.tag_prefix"
+
+    versionfile_abs = os.path.join(root, cfg.versionfile_source)
+
+    # extract version from first of: _version.py, VCS command (e.g. 'git
+    # describe'), parentdir. This is meant to work for developers using a
+    # source checkout, for users of a tarball created by 'setup.py sdist',
+    # and for users of a tarball/zipball created by 'git archive' or github's
+    # download-from-tag feature or the equivalent in other VCSes.
+
+    get_keywords_f = handlers.get("get_keywords")
+    from_keywords_f = handlers.get("keywords")
+    if get_keywords_f and from_keywords_f:
+        try:
+            keywords = get_keywords_f(versionfile_abs)
+            ver = from_keywords_f(keywords, cfg.tag_prefix, verbose)
+            if verbose:
+                print("got version from expanded keyword %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+        except NotThisMethod:
+            pass
+
+    try:
+        ver = versions_from_file(versionfile_abs)
+        if verbose:
+            print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile_abs, ver))
+        return ver
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    from_vcs_f = handlers.get("pieces_from_vcs")
+    if from_vcs_f:
+        try:
+            pieces = from_vcs_f(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
+            ver = render(pieces, cfg.style)
+            if verbose:
+                print("got version from VCS %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+        except NotThisMethod:
+            pass
+
+    try:
+        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
+            ver = versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
+            if verbose:
+                print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    if verbose:
+        print("unable to compute version")
+
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": None,
+        "dirty": None,
+        "error": "unable to compute version",
+        "date": None,
+    }
+
+
+def get_version():
+    """Get the short version string for this project."""
+    return get_versions()["version"]
+
+
+def get_cmdclass(cmdclass=None):
+    """Get the custom setuptools/distutils subclasses used by Versioneer.
+
+    If the package uses a different cmdclass (e.g. one from numpy), it
+    should be provide as an argument.
+    """
+    if "versioneer" in sys.modules:
+        del sys.modules["versioneer"]
+        # this fixes the "python setup.py develop" case (also 'install' and
+        # 'easy_install .'), in which subdependencies of the main project are
+        # built (using setup.py bdist_egg) in the same python process. Assume
+        # a main project A and a dependency B, which use different versions
+        # of Versioneer. A's setup.py imports A's Versioneer, leaving it in
+        # sys.modules by the time B's setup.py is executed, causing B to run
+        # with the wrong versioneer. Setuptools wraps the sub-dep builds in a
+        # sandbox that restores sys.modules to it's pre-build state, so the
+        # parent is protected against the child's "import versioneer". By
+        # removing ourselves from sys.modules here, before the child build
+        # happens, we protect the child from the parent's versioneer too.
+        # Also see https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/issues/52
+
+    cmds = {} if cmdclass is None else cmdclass.copy()
+
+    # we add "version" to both distutils and setuptools
+    from distutils.core import Command
+
+    class cmd_version(Command):
+        description = "report generated version string"
+        user_options = []
+        boolean_options = []
+
+        def initialize_options(self):
+            pass
+
+        def finalize_options(self):
+            pass
+
+        def run(self):
+            vers = get_versions(verbose=True)
+            print("Version: %s" % vers["version"])
+            print(" full-revisionid: %s" % vers.get("full-revisionid"))
+            print(" dirty: %s" % vers.get("dirty"))
+            print(" date: %s" % vers.get("date"))
+            if vers["error"]:
+                print(" error: %s" % vers["error"])
+
+    cmds["version"] = cmd_version
+
+    # we override "build_py" in both distutils and setuptools
+    #
+    # most invocation pathways end up running build_py:
+    #  distutils/build -> build_py
+    #  distutils/install -> distutils/build ->..
+    #  setuptools/bdist_wheel -> distutils/install ->..
+    #  setuptools/bdist_egg -> distutils/install_lib -> build_py
+    #  setuptools/install -> bdist_egg ->..
+    #  setuptools/develop -> ?
+    #  pip install:
+    #   copies source tree to a tempdir before running egg_info/etc
+    #   if .git isn't copied too, 'git describe' will fail
+    #   then does setup.py bdist_wheel, or sometimes setup.py install
+    #  setup.py egg_info -> ?
+
+    # we override different "build_py" commands for both environments
+    if "build_py" in cmds:
+        _build_py = cmds["build_py"]
+    elif "setuptools" in sys.modules:
+        from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+    else:
+        from distutils.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+
+    class cmd_build_py(_build_py):
+        def run(self):
+            root = get_root()
+            cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+            versions = get_versions()
+            _build_py.run(self)
+            # now locate _version.py in the new build/ directory and replace
+            # it with an updated value
+            if cfg.versionfile_build:
+                target_versionfile = os.path.join(self.build_lib, cfg.versionfile_build)
+                print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+                write_to_version_file(target_versionfile, versions)
+
+    cmds["build_py"] = cmd_build_py
+
+    if "build_ext" in cmds:
+        _build_ext = cmds["build_ext"]
+    elif "setuptools" in sys.modules:
+        from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
+    else:
+        from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
+
+    class cmd_build_ext(_build_ext):
+        def run(self):
+            root = get_root()
+            cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+            versions = get_versions()
+            _build_ext.run(self)
+            if self.inplace:
+                # build_ext --inplace will only build extensions in
+                # build/lib<..> dir with no _version.py to write to.
+                # As in place builds will already have a _version.py
+                # in the module dir, we do not need to write one.
+                return
+            # now locate _version.py in the new build/ directory and replace
+            # it with an updated value
+            target_versionfile = os.path.join(self.build_lib, cfg.versionfile_build)
+            print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+            write_to_version_file(target_versionfile, versions)
+
+    cmds["build_ext"] = cmd_build_ext
+
+    if "cx_Freeze" in sys.modules:  # cx_freeze enabled?
+        from cx_Freeze.dist import build_exe as _build_exe
+
+        # nczeczulin reports that py2exe won't like the pep440-style string
+        # as FILEVERSION, but it can be used for PRODUCTVERSION, e.g.
+        # setup(console=[{
+        #   "version": versioneer.get_version().split("+", 1)[0], # FILEVERSION
+        #   "product_version": versioneer.get_version(),
+        #   ...
+
+        class cmd_build_exe(_build_exe):
+            def run(self):
+                root = get_root()
+                cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+                versions = get_versions()
+                target_versionfile = cfg.versionfile_source
+                print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+                write_to_version_file(target_versionfile, versions)
+
+                _build_exe.run(self)
+                os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+                with open(cfg.versionfile_source, "w") as f:
+                    LONG = LONG_VERSION_PY[cfg.VCS]
+                    f.write(
+                        LONG
+                        % {
+                            "DOLLAR": "$",
+                            "STYLE": cfg.style,
+                            "TAG_PREFIX": cfg.tag_prefix,
+                            "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": cfg.parentdir_prefix,
+                            "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": cfg.versionfile_source,
+                        }
+                    )
+
+        cmds["build_exe"] = cmd_build_exe
+        del cmds["build_py"]
+
+    if "py2exe" in sys.modules:  # py2exe enabled?
+        from py2exe.distutils_buildexe import py2exe as _py2exe
+
+        class cmd_py2exe(_py2exe):
+            def run(self):
+                root = get_root()
+                cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+                versions = get_versions()
+                target_versionfile = cfg.versionfile_source
+                print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+                write_to_version_file(target_versionfile, versions)
+
+                _py2exe.run(self)
+                os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+                with open(cfg.versionfile_source, "w") as f:
+                    LONG = LONG_VERSION_PY[cfg.VCS]
+                    f.write(
+                        LONG
+                        % {
+                            "DOLLAR": "$",
+                            "STYLE": cfg.style,
+                            "TAG_PREFIX": cfg.tag_prefix,
+                            "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": cfg.parentdir_prefix,
+                            "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": cfg.versionfile_source,
+                        }
+                    )
+
+        cmds["py2exe"] = cmd_py2exe
+
+    # we override different "sdist" commands for both environments
+    if "sdist" in cmds:
+        _sdist = cmds["sdist"]
+    elif "setuptools" in sys.modules:
+        from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+    else:
+        from distutils.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+
+    class cmd_sdist(_sdist):
+        def run(self):
+            versions = get_versions()
+            self._versioneer_generated_versions = versions
+            # unless we update this, the command will keep using the old
+            # version
+            self.distribution.metadata.version = versions["version"]
+            return _sdist.run(self)
+
+        def make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files):
+            root = get_root()
+            cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+            _sdist.make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files)
+            # now locate _version.py in the new base_dir directory
+            # (remembering that it may be a hardlink) and replace it with an
+            # updated value
+            target_versionfile = os.path.join(base_dir, cfg.versionfile_source)
+            print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+            write_to_version_file(target_versionfile, self._versioneer_generated_versions)
+
+    cmds["sdist"] = cmd_sdist
+
+    return cmds
+
+
+CONFIG_ERROR = """
+setup.cfg is missing the necessary Versioneer configuration. You need
+a section like:
+
+ [versioneer]
+ VCS = git
+ style = pep440
+ versionfile_source = src/myproject/_version.py
+ versionfile_build = myproject/_version.py
+ tag_prefix =
+ parentdir_prefix = myproject-
+
+You will also need to edit your setup.py to use the results:
+
+ import versioneer
+ setup(version=versioneer.get_version(),
+       cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(), ...)
+
+Please read the docstring in ./versioneer.py for configuration instructions,
+edit setup.cfg, and re-run the installer or 'python versioneer.py setup'.
+"""
+
+SAMPLE_CONFIG = """
+# See the docstring in versioneer.py for instructions. Note that you must
+# re-run 'versioneer.py setup' after changing this section, and commit the
+# resulting files.
+
+[versioneer]
+#VCS = git
+#style = pep440
+#versionfile_source =
+#versionfile_build =
+#tag_prefix =
+#parentdir_prefix =
+
+"""
+
+OLD_SNIPPET = """
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
+"""
+
+INIT_PY_SNIPPET = """
+from . import {0}
+__version__ = {0}.get_versions()['version']
+"""
+
+
+def do_setup():
+    """Do main VCS-independent setup function for installing Versioneer."""
+    root = get_root()
+    try:
+        cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
+    except (OSError, configparser.NoSectionError, configparser.NoOptionError) as e:
+        if isinstance(e, (OSError, configparser.NoSectionError)):
+            print("Adding sample versioneer config to setup.cfg", file=sys.stderr)
+            with open(os.path.join(root, "setup.cfg"), "a") as f:
+                f.write(SAMPLE_CONFIG)
+        print(CONFIG_ERROR, file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+
+    print(" creating %s" % cfg.versionfile_source)
+    with open(cfg.versionfile_source, "w") as f:
+        LONG = LONG_VERSION_PY[cfg.VCS]
+        f.write(
+            LONG
+            % {
+                "DOLLAR": "$",
+                "STYLE": cfg.style,
+                "TAG_PREFIX": cfg.tag_prefix,
+                "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": cfg.parentdir_prefix,
+                "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": cfg.versionfile_source,
+            }
+        )
+
+    ipy = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(cfg.versionfile_source), "__init__.py")
+    if os.path.exists(ipy):
+        try:
+            with open(ipy, "r") as f:
+                old = f.read()
+        except OSError:
+            old = ""
+        module = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(cfg.versionfile_source))[0]
+        snippet = INIT_PY_SNIPPET.format(module)
+        if OLD_SNIPPET in old:
+            print(" replacing boilerplate in %s" % ipy)
+            with open(ipy, "w") as f:
+                f.write(old.replace(OLD_SNIPPET, snippet))
+        elif snippet not in old:
+            print(" appending to %s" % ipy)
+            with open(ipy, "a") as f:
+                f.write(snippet)
+        else:
+            print(" %s unmodified" % ipy)
+    else:
+        print(" %s doesn't exist, ok" % ipy)
+        ipy = None
+
+    # Make sure both the top-level "versioneer.py" and versionfile_source
+    # (PKG/_version.py, used by runtime code) are in MANIFEST.in, so
+    # they'll be copied into source distributions. Pip won't be able to
+    # install the package without this.
+    manifest_in = os.path.join(root, "MANIFEST.in")
+    simple_includes = set()
+    try:
+        with open(manifest_in, "r") as f:
+            for line in f:
+                if line.startswith("include "):
+                    for include in line.split()[1:]:
+                        simple_includes.add(include)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    # That doesn't cover everything MANIFEST.in can do
+    # (http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/sourcedist.html#commands), so
+    # it might give some false negatives. Appending redundant 'include'
+    # lines is safe, though.
+    if "versioneer.py" not in simple_includes:
+        print(" appending 'versioneer.py' to MANIFEST.in")
+        with open(manifest_in, "a") as f:
+            f.write("include versioneer.py\n")
+    else:
+        print(" 'versioneer.py' already in MANIFEST.in")
+    if cfg.versionfile_source not in simple_includes:
+        print(" appending versionfile_source ('%s') to MANIFEST.in" % cfg.versionfile_source)
+        with open(manifest_in, "a") as f:
+            f.write("include %s\n" % cfg.versionfile_source)
+    else:
+        print(" versionfile_source already in MANIFEST.in")
+
+    # Make VCS-specific changes. For git, this means creating/changing
+    # .gitattributes to mark _version.py for export-subst keyword
+    # substitution.
+    do_vcs_install(manifest_in, cfg.versionfile_source, ipy)
+    return 0
+
+
+def scan_setup_py():
+    """Validate the contents of setup.py against Versioneer's expectations."""
+    found = set()
+    setters = False
+    errors = 0
+    with open("setup.py", "r") as f:
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if "import versioneer" in line:
+                found.add("import")
+            if "versioneer.get_cmdclass()" in line:
+                found.add("cmdclass")
+            if "versioneer.get_version()" in line:
+                found.add("get_version")
+            if "versioneer.VCS" in line:
+                setters = True
+            if "versioneer.versionfile_source" in line:
+                setters = True
+    if len(found) != 3:
+        print("")
+        print("Your setup.py appears to be missing some important items")
+        print("(but I might be wrong). Please make sure it has something")
+        print("roughly like the following:")
+        print("")
+        print(" import versioneer")
+        print(" setup( version=versioneer.get_version(),")
+        print("        cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),  ...)")
+        print("")
+        errors += 1
+    if setters:
+        print("You should remove lines like 'versioneer.VCS = ' and")
+        print("'versioneer.versionfile_source = ' . This configuration")
+        print("now lives in setup.cfg, and should be removed from setup.py")
+        print("")
+        errors += 1
+    return errors
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    cmd = sys.argv[1]
+    if cmd == "setup":
+        errors = do_setup()
+        errors += scan_setup_py()
+        if errors:
+            sys.exit(1)